From: Lennert Buytenhek Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:22:07 GMT Subject: Re: dangling trees Message-ID: <20050505132207.GA18572@xi.wantstofly.org> In-Reply-To: <20050505141710.B8323@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > dangling tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a > > > > The dangling commit is the current head - that's fine. However, > > what's this dangling tree? > > > > It appears to have come in from Linus' tree on kernel.org this morning. > > > > (above from cogito 0.8) > > As an additional note, the ID does not correspond with any tags or > heads: > > .git/refs/heads/master:897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d > .git/refs/heads/origin:897f5ab2cd733a77a2279268262919caa8154b9d > .git/refs/tags/v2.6.11:5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c Those are tag objects. $ git-cat-file tag 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c | head -3 object c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a type tree tag v2.6.11-tree --L